New Plugin #2 – A Calendar For Your Blog

The second, which has been a highly requested feature, gives you the ability to place a calendar on any post or page in your blog.

This plugin can be used as an event calendar, lesson plan book, or maybe a class birthday calendar. We would love to hear about other ways that this feature might be used. Feel free to leave a comment below with your ideas!

So how do you use the plugin?

It’s easy. Pro and Campus users can activate the plugin from their dashboard. This will create a new Calendar tab near the bottom of the left column in the dashboard where you can configure the calendar.

The most common way to use the calendar is to create a new page and copy and paste {CALENDAR} into the page where you want the calendar to appear. Make sure to include the brackets and use all upper case letters. This can be used on any page or post in a blog.

To add events, click on Manage Calendar on the calendar tab. Events can be recurring, scheduled for all day, or given specific times. You can assign events to different categories and give each category a different color so it can be easily identified on the calendar. You might find ColorPicker.com useful when assigning colors.

And what about widgets?

Once the plugin is activated, you will find two new widgets to put in your blog’s sidebars. There is one for “Today’s Events” and one for “Upcoming Events”.

A calendar may just be the perfect addition to a class blog to keep students and parents informed. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s release of plugin number three!

I can not get my calendar to work! I have followed the instructions, deactivated, reactivated and still no success. The calendar appears jumbled on the page. The widgets are not visible. Any suggestions?

I have tried to embed a google calendar. Worked fine until I signed out of my Google account. Then, when I went to have a look at the calendar on my blog, it had disappeared.
Just can’t seem to get it to stay there…

It sounds like perhaps the calendar isn’t set to public on google or maybe something else is going on. Can you email us at [email protected] with a link to where you are embedding the calendar and we’ll get you fixed up? :)

We don’t have any plans for such plugins at the moment, but many of our users like the Volunteerspot.com service which does much of what you are saying (if not all). Have you seen that before and given it a try?